Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Vatican Coptic Papyrus 1 |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Sortition oracle |
| Contents: | 1. pp. 1-24: Sortition Oracle; surviving lots go from 21-219. |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
601 – 800 |
| Date notes: | van Lantschoot 1956; p. 36. TM (29/7/2019) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
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| Archive name: | |
| State of edition: | Published |
| Image: | https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Pap.Vat.copt.1 |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 15.5 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 251). |
| Folding pattern: | |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. First folio almost entirely lost. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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24 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 24 surviving pages (12 folios); original size at least 44 pages. 1 column per page. 2 folios (=4 pages) lost at beginning, and 8 folios (16 pages) lost between folios 7 and 8 (Lantschoot 1956: p. 36). |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 49) |
| Present Location: | Rome, Vatican, Biblioteca del Vaticano |
| Collection History: | Brought to Rome by Silvestro Guidi, prior to 1837 (van Lantschoot 1956: p. 35). Presumably purchased by the Vatican Library from him at some time afterwards. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
348 |
| Collection website: | https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/manuscripts/6387 |
| Notes/Discussion: | Described in ACM as an example of the Sortes Sanctorum, but the note on Trismegistos (probably by F Naether) states that “this is not the lot oracle Sortes Sanctorum / Apostolorum”; on this point see Klingshirn 2002: 76-130. Trismegistos mistakenly states that this text appears as no. 56 in Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: i testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 18.5, edited by W. Hasse and H. Temporini. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995. |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Rosellini, Hippolyte, Maria Ungarelli. Elementa linguae Aegyptiacae vulgo Copticae quae auditoribus suis in patrio athenaeo Pisano tradebat Hippolytus Rosellinus, 1837, p.127-135 (selections). |
| Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 251-256, no. 126. |
| General: | Klingshirn, W.B. “Defining the Sortes Sanctorum: Gibbon, Du Cange, and Early Christian Lot Divination,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002): 76-130. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 100014 |
PAThs: | 6387 |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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126 |
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
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| Edit History: | MPS (29/7/2019); KD (12/11/2020) |